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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
PORTRAIT OF THOMAS ASHE IN THE UNIFORM OF THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS
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Leo Whelan RHA, HRUA (1892-1956)
The Irish portrait and genre painter Leo Whelan was born in Dublin in 1892. He learned drawing and painting at the Metropolitan School of Art* (now the National College of Art & Design), under William Orpen, becoming in due course (along with Sean Keating, Margaret Clarke and Patrick Tuohy) one of his most influential pupils in early twentieth century Irish painting, adhering strictly to Orpen's academic style of portrait art.
In 1911, Whe (showing 500 of 2868 characters). |
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